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Still the Era of Neopluralism?

Civil Society and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America

Celebrating Philip Oxhorn鈥檚 legacy

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November 3-4, 2022

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On November 3-4^th 2022, ISID, 脡RIGAL, and the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Participation will be co-hosting a celebration of the scholarly contributions of ISID founding director, prominent Political Scientist, and Latin Americanist Philip Oxhorn at the Thomson House Ballroom at 麻豆AV. Entitled 鈥淪till the Era of Neopluralism?鈥�, the conference will interweave discussions of neopluralism with key themes of citizenship, democracy, development, and the public sphere in Latin America. We encourage all interested students, scholars, and members of the community to attend! See the below program for more information and register via our Eventbrite page (listed below). Please direct further enquires to Iain Blair at iain.blair [at] mcgill.ca.

Eventbrite:

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3^RD

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3pm 鈥� Opening remarks

Celebrating Philip Oxhorn: On Civil Society and the Social Construction of Citizenship in the Study of Latin America

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• Jacob Levy, Political Science, 麻豆AV
• Erik Kuhonta & Manuel Balan, ISID
• Fran莽oise Montambeault, ERIGAL

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3:30pm 鈥� Keynote address

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• Democracy, Inequality, and the Rise of Populism in the Americas.听 Terry Lynn Karl, Stanford University

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5pm 鈥� Cocktail

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4^th

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8:30am 鈥� Welcome coffee

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9am-10:30am

Citizenship as Consumption, Citizenship as Agency

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• Citizenship, Participation and Civil Society: The Trajectory of Contested Concepts in Brazil.听 Evelina Dagnino, UNICAMP
• Where Did All the Parties Go? Social Protest, Civil Society and Representational Crises in Chile's (De)Constitutive Moment.听 Kenneth M. Roberts, Cornell University
• Citizenship as Consumption: The Urban Popular Movement in Mexico City.听 Tina Hilgers, Concordia University

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11:00am-12:30pm

Neopluralism and Social Exclusion : Citizenship at the Margins

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• Citizenship as Agency or Rainbow Neopluralism? LGBT Activist Employees and the Argentine State.听 Julie Moreau, UofT
• Carework After two Decades of Democracy and Rapid Growth in Peru: Mothers as Citizens? Stephanie Rousseau, PUC-Peru
• The Making of Immigrant Inequality: The Privileging of Cubans. Susan Eckstein, Boston University

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12:30pm 鈥� Lunch Break

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2:00pm-3:30pm

Neopluralism, the Public Sphere and the Challenges for Democracy

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• Media, the Public Sphere and Neopluralism in Latin America.听 Michelle Bonner, UVic
• Hybrid and Authoritarian Regimes in the Arab Middle East: Accounting for Variations in Types of Regime Transition during the Arab Spring.听 Aviad Rubin, Haifa
• Media Representation and the Challenges to Political Participation for Organized Social Groups in Latin America: Subnational Dynamics.听 Julian Durazo Herrmann, UQAM

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4:00pm-5:30pm 鈥� Closing roundtable

Chair: Manuel Bal谩n, 麻豆AV

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• Cynthia Sanborn, PUC-Peru
• The Right Honorable Joe Clark, Munk School
• Rohinton Medhora, CIGI
• Philip Oxhorn